Originally Posted by
Noah A
My only complaint about the VX was that it has no direct lens fall. You can, of course, drop the bed since the VX does have rear tilt. But it's a bit more cumbersome than a direct movement. The Toyo fields do have some lens fall, but at the expense of not as much rise. So you'd need to decide what's more important to you.
My one other complaint was that the rotating back does tend to vignette the corners of the frame, especially with longer lenses. It's been a while now, but from what I remember this was visible at 150mm and pretty bad with 210mm. My technika does this too, but not nearly as much. It's not a huge issue but if you like to print full-frame it can be a problem. I've never used a toyo but from what I understand, they don't have this issue.
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But if you don't use back movements (other than maybe some tilt, which the VX has), then by all means, I'd save the money and go for the VX.
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